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This time all of us, 2018 is good for Turkey on the Sahin show called Shawwal consult on CNN Sual answer the questions we put to him, we were witnessing the disability lynching. Who knows how many times a woman was judged with the label “beautiful but stupid”, crushed, humiliated …
First of all, I would like to mention; this is not a self defense post. Let’s try to see the root of the problems, let’s not oil the bread of the system, post.
While watching the snippet of the well-known show, basically three things bothered me:
I think the first thing was to know that there were people who were amused by the inability of Şevval Şahin to answer questions, who enjoyed those moments when we saw the woman in a difficult situation and who perhaps felt very intelligent unless he could answer the questions. This sounds like simple ego satisfaction to me. Vanity, I will say, but no. Because vanity also has its own. This is quite dignified, vulgar. I’ve always thought that we should find great and useful things that satisfy our little egos. We have to know that making fun of the shortcomings or mistakes of others does not glorify us. At the very least, our tool shouldn’t be a way to feel good.
The second was the expression on the faces of the women who asked the questions. Sorry. No matter how surprising the situation may be, it pains me, as a woman, to see a woman in such a difficult situation before you with such a cold expression. Also, Şevval Şahin made a statement on Instagram; Before the program we had agreed that these questions would not be asked, it was a charity program, although I did not want to participate, I attended only for that, they convinced me that they were against violence against women. They were questions that questioned my Turkey, I grew up in England since I was 6 years old, but I don’t think I’m less Turkish ”, he says. Therefore, it can be said that the questions asked and the attitude are not very good intentions.
Third, which is the main concern, we are also not aware that we are causing the aterkyl structure to repeat itself by humiliating a woman. What is the real problem here? Is it to determine that a woman who won the beauty pageant is beautiful but stupid and causes the woman to be traumatized, or to react to capitalism that commodifies the female body and leads to ignorance by setting stupid standards of beauty? I think the second. Because the first does not give us anything. It can even be a form of behavior that costs a person their life. If our intention is to do something good for society, it is functional to discuss systems, not individuals, before society. Of course, except for those that refer to the social order.
Organizations called beauty pageants; They are racist, sexist and mindless capitalist tools that humiliate and hurt women, commodify / commodify the female body. The sad part is that at this time they still exist in this world and in Turkey. Feminists around the world have repeatedly protested beauty pageants, pageants have been published and rallies have been held. Instead of criticizing these irrational organizations, which today we cannot even call “primitive”, defrauding a woman who participated in this contest within a fiction is an attitude that is hypocritical and maintains what is criticized. In the capitalist system established by the male mind that makes money with women, criticizing these women looks like this: “Darling, equality is good, but the problem is more with women, some women do, they are not less” . So you are looking at the result of the problem, not the source. You are criticizing the women who were brought to that point, not the male mind that brought women to this point. “If they hadn’t gotten to that point too!” If you say, “Come on dear!” I say. Everyone should set up the system, silence women, shut them down, even take away the right to abortion in 2020, let their work mean the rights they earned, try to make feminist organizations a terrorist organization, men should even be protected when they are killed; then “But also women …”
Come on dear!
Look at the ugliness of the table: Men and women of the standards they like to watch, a world order designed accordingly, beauty pageants, men making money on the female body, unequal opportunities, not allowing women to pass, pushing women women to ignorance, a system that allows women to exist through beauty, tweezers. , heels, waxing, lipsticks, most viewed female body profiles, many followers, questions asked, answers that cannot be given and beautiful but stupid women!
Is this the painting we should all laugh at together? “Oh, it happened to him too, but he deserved it!” we will say Is this our genius?
This look also spreads the prejudice that women considered “beautiful” cannot be smart or will be stupid. In the male dominated system, whatever environment you enter, you will find that women who define themselves as beautiful are approached with stupid prejudices at first. These women often have to prove themselves first. If you show it, this will look like something surprising: “Oh, you are beautiful, smart and interesting …” It even has a scene from a Turkish movie; The sick Ediz Hun does not think he is a doctor when he meets Dr. Filiz Akın. When Filiz Akın asks her why, she says “You are so beautiful”. Filiz Akın sticks to the answer “What, beautiful women can’t be doctors, engineers, or lawyers?” Ediz Hun is embarrassed to say something like “No, beautiful women like you should always be kissed, loved.” This is the basis for the idea that beautiful women can be harassed. This is where the phrase “you are as cheeky as you are beautiful” comes from. The intelligent responses given by the beautiful woman are, at best, insolent.
What man’s intelligent response was perceived as arrogance? What guy did you see crammed into a seat? How many men have you witnessed being called “pretty but empty”?
Phrases like “Sir, these women also eat the bread of the system, they earn money like this, the buyer and the seller are willing” only ensure the continuity of this system. After all, our goal is not to take revenge on anyone, is it?
Honestly, the only good thing about the show was that it created an environment for discussion on this topic. In a period in which attacks on women’s acquired rights are increasing and the crisis of masculinity is resurrecting, it is also everyone’s duty to look at all the issues before us from the perspective of gender equality and make them speak out.
